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SAFETY PIN.

No. 857,891. Patented Peby15, 1887.

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HENRY C. BAILEY, OF NEWV YORK, Y., AND THOMAS PORTER, OF MONT- OLAIR, NEW JERSEY; SAID BAILEY ASSIGNOR TO SAID PORTER.

SAFETY-PIN.

EPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,891, dated February 15, 1887.

Application filed September), 1856. Serial No. 212,444.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, HENRY O. BAILEY, of the city, county, and State of New York, and THOMAS PORTER, of Montclair, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Improved Safety-Pin, of which we declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact specification, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of the same.

This invention is in the nature of an improvement in safety-pins; and the invention consists in a safety-pin having a stop constructed and combined in the manner and for the purpose hereinafter with particularity described,

shown, and claimed.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional view of the stop in po sition when the pin is closed. Fig. 2 shows the stop in position when the pin is open. Fig. 3 shows the stop applied to a pin without an offset. Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are detail views of stop and modifications.

Similar letters of reference indicate like 2 5 parts in the several figures.

The purpose of this invention is to provide the ordinary safety-pin with a device in the nature of a stop, to prevent the fabric from working back into the coils of the spring when the pin is in use in,a garment, The stop device also acts as a stay to prevent the two members of the pin from being spread too far apart and so destroying the coil-spring. The device also, to some extent, acts as a brace to 5 prevent the members of the pin from. being too readily bent together.

We are aware that safety-pins have been provided with stops to prevent the fabric from working between the coils of the springs, and many such stops have been heretofore patented; but no stop having the construction and producing the effect of the stop which we have invented, and now proceed to describe,

has been yet produced.

In the construction of our safety-pin stop and locking device, A in the accompanying drawings represents a safety-pin of ordinary and well-known construction. A stop device, B, consisting either of a piece of sheet metal with two perforations, a, at or near the ends of (No model.)

the same, as in Fig. 5, or consistingof a piece of wire bent in the shape of a figure 8, or otherwise bent to form two eyes, b, is provided. The distance between the perforations a in the piece of sheet metal and between the eyes I) in the wire should be about equal to the width between the members 0 and d, in the vicinity of the coil-spring'e of the pin, and the diameter of the perforations a and the eyes I) should be such as will permit the members of the pin to pass snugly through such perforations or eyes. The stop device 13' so constructed is combined with a safety-pin by inserting the members 0 and d of the pin through the perforations a or eyes I), as the caseniay be, and sliding the stop B back until it reaches a point near the coiled spring 0. Now, when the pin has the stop B in this manner fixed to it,-the pin may be used precisely in the same manner as the ordinary pin, but when so used it will be found that the fabric in which the pin is thrust is prevented from working back and between the coils of the spring 0 by the stop B, which acts as a barrier. It will also be found in use that this stop acts as a barrier in the manner stated; but at the same time-it also acts as a stop to prevent the accidental pulling apart of the members 0 and (Z of the pin, and so destroying the pin by uncoiling the spring 6, which is a common accident, for the stop is practically a link tying the two members of the pin together; and it will also be found that this stop possesses a third function-and that is, since the stop is rigid, and the members of the pin pass more or less snugly through the openings or eyes in it, it becomes a brace, and so, to some extent, prevents the undue bending together of the members of the pin, stiffens the action of the coilspring, and protects it from being contracted unduly.

If desired, the member (Z of the pin may be bent with an offset, f, which will tend to keep the stop B located at or about its proper position. When the pin is inserted in the fabric the stop B may be slipped along the members of the pin, and so crowd the fabric of the garment toward the shield. The link then locks the point of the pin in the shield and prevents its accidental displacement.

Having now described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In combination with a safety-pin, a stop,

5 B, constructed to slide along the members of the pin and so lock the pin-point in the shield, as and for the purpose described.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a stop for a safety-pin, consisting of a link of metal,

10 B, provided with eyes or perforations for receiving the members 0 and (l of the pin, as and for the purpose described.

3. In combination, a safety-pin with a metal stop, B, provided with perforations through which are passed the members 0 and d of the I 3 pin, whereby the fabric in which the pin is thrust is prevented from working between the coils of the spring 6, and the undue pulling apart or pushing together the members of the pin is prevented, substantially as and for the 20 purpose described.

HENRY O. BAILEY. THOMAS PORTER. In presence of- G. M. PLYMPTON, D. A. CARPENTER. 

